David-William Gibson is an American journalist, author, radio host, and cultural critic.

He shared a 2016 National Magazine Award for his work on “This Is the Story of One Block in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn” for New York magazine.

[1] Gibson has published two oral histories: Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today’s Changing Economy and The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Century,[2] which won the inaugural Brooklyn Eagle Literary Prize awarded by the Brooklyn Public Library[3][4] and a 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal.

[5] He has written for Harper’s, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, and The Village Voice.

[6] He has contributed on-air to NPR’s All Things Considered[7] and Midday on WNYC[8]